The Air Jordan V 'Fire Red' retro: back for the third time

The current Air Jordan boom just keeps on escalating. It's good to see new generations introduced to some design classics, but the Air Jordan III becoming as ubiquitous as an AF1 seems to take the shoe's object-of-desire aura somewhat. On these shores, it seemed to be the Jordan V that really blew the range up to phenomenon levels. While we had trouble tracking the III over here, the IV was the first Air Jordan to get a wide UK release and by the time we'd scraped together £65 to get a pair, they'd been replaced by the £89 fifth installment. Big as a pop cultural object and worn by Will Smith, John Goodman, Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Mustaine (in fact, even Johnny Rotten broke out a pair of Fire Reds on The Word back in the day), it's a shoe that even has iconic lacelocks. But, if we're honest, there's too many Jordan Vs out there. Seeing as it's 23 years old and that's MJ's ...